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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 21
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How murders by unknown persons are expiated—Equity required in dealing with wives and children under plural marriage—Stubborn and rebellious sons may be put to death.
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If</span> <i>one</i> be found slain in the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, <i>and</i> it be not known who hath slain him:
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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR the distance to.">unto</a> the cities which <i>are</i> round about him that is slain:
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And it shall be, <i>that</i> the city <i>which is</i> next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR worked.">wrought</a> with, <i>and</i> which hath not drawn in the yoke;
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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB plowed, worked.">eared</a> nor sown, and shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/21/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR break.">strike</a> off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
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And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and by their word shall every controversy and every <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR case of assault.">stroke</a> be <i>tried:</i>
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And all the elders of that city, <i>that are</i> next unto the slain <i>man,</i> shall wash their hands over the heifer <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR whose neck is broken.">that</a> is beheaded in the valley:
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And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen <i>it.</i>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Let atonement be made for.">Be</a> merciful, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/21/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 25: 22; D&C 84: 99 (99-100).">redeemed</a>, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge.  And the blood shall be forgiven them.
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So shalt thou put away the <i>guilt of</i> innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do <i>that which is</i> right in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
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And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
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Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
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And she shall put the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR captive garb.">raiment</a> of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
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And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 24: 7.">sell</a> her at all for money, thou shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/21/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB treat her harshly.">make</a> merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
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&#182; If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/15a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR despised, disliked (also v. 16, 17); Gen. 29: 33.">hated</a>, and they have born him children, <i>both</i> the beloved and the hated; and <i>if</i> the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
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Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit <i>that</i> which he hath, <i>that</i> he may not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB prefer.">make</a> the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, <i>which is indeed</i> the firstborn:
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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated <i>for</i> the firstborn, by giving him a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 2: 9.">double</a> portion of all that he hath: for he <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/21/17b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR his first issue.">the</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/21/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 3.">beginning</a> of his strength; the right of the <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/21/17d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Firstborn.">firstborn</a> <i>is</i> his.
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&#182; If a man have a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">stubborn</a> and rebellious son, which will not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/21/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Disobedience; TG Honoring Father and Mother.">obey</a> the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and <i>that,</i> when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the gate of the city nearest his house.">the</a> gate of his place;
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And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son <i>is</i> stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; <i>he is</i> a glutton, and a drunkard.
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And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
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&#182; And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
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His <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/21/23a" mark="a" type="D" title="According to Rabbinical commentaries, to leave a body hanging was a degradation of the human body and therefore an affront to God, in whose image man’s body was made.">body</a> shall not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/21/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 19: 31 (31-33).">remain</a> all night upon the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/21/23c" mark="c" type="C" title="Gal. 3: 13; TG Jesus Christ, Crucifixion of.">tree</a>, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged <i>is</i> <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/21/23d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gal. 3: 13.">accursed</a> of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee <i>for</i> an <sup>e</sup><a href="deut/21/23e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Lands of Inheritance.">inheritance</a>.
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